{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,19]],"date-time":"2025-06-19T04:52:41Z","timestamp":1750308761773,"version":"3.41.0"},"reference-count":4,"publisher":"Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)","issue":"4","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2007,5,1]],"date-time":"2007-05-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1177977600000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/copyright_policy#Background"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["dl.acm.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Queue"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2007,5]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>Three years ago, to the very tick, my first Curmudgeon column appeared in ACM Queue to the rapturous, one-handed claps of the silent majority. Since then my essays have alternated intermittently with those of other grumpy contributors. With this issue (muffled drumroll), I\u2019m proud to announce a Gore-like climate change in the regime that will redefine the shallow roots of ACJ (agile computer journalism, of which more anon). The astute ACM Queue Management (yes, there is such - you really must read the opening pages of this magazine!) has offered me the chance to go solo. For the next few Queues, at least, I am crowned King Curmudgeon, the Idi Amin of Moaners, nay, Supreme General Secretary of the Complaining Party! \"I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!\"<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1145\/1255421.1255437","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,6,8]],"date-time":"2007-06-08T15:00:08Z","timestamp":1181314808000},"page":"64-64","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Alloneword"],"prefix":"10.1145","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Stan","family":"Kelly-Bootle","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_1_1","unstructured":"Shakespeare W. Merchant of Venice (act 1 scene 1). Incidentally this play may cast light on the Bard's sexual preferences: \"My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.\"  Shakespeare W. Merchant of Venice (act 1 scene 1). Incidentally this play may cast light on the Bard's sexual preferences: \"My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.\""},{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","unstructured":"In my school Latin v's were pronounced as w's. In German and Polish we were taught to reverse this rule--most confusing. Caesar's declaration has been much parodied: \"Veni vidi volo in domum redire\" (I came I saw I wanna go home) and \"Veni vidi Visa\" (I came I saw I shopped).  In my school Latin v's were pronounced as w's. In German and Polish we were taught to reverse this rule--most confusing. Caesar's declaration has been much parodied: \"Veni vidi volo in domum redire\" (I came I saw I wanna go home) and \"Veni vidi Visa\" (I came I saw I shopped)."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_3_1","unstructured":"I was reminded of this ancient anecdote by an entry in Wiki! Strangely I now feel less inclined to believe it. It has that too-telling-to-be-true urban-mythic feel. Why draw attention so openly to Beria's downfall while Russia is going through the motions of mourning Stalin? Reader input will be rewarded.  I was reminded of this ancient anecdote by an entry in Wiki! Strangely I now feel less inclined to believe it. It has that too-telling-to-be-true urban-mythic feel. Why draw attention so openly to Beria's downfall while Russia is going through the motions of mourning Stalin? Reader input will be rewarded."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_4_1","unstructured":"From Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) and his famous dictum \"God made the integers; all else is the work of Man.\" This is one of those many slick aphorisms that defy reasonable analysis (if you spot the pun on analysis a branch of mathematics forgive me). Both theists and atheists have problems with Kronecker. Theists can claim that a Real God by definition is perfectly capable of extending the discrete integers to the Real number continuum. Atheists say that \"God don't enter into the equation.\" Early man invented the integers (how else can one impose taxes or count slaves?); later after much trial and error came the rationals or fractions (how else to divide the pie?) followed by the badly named irrationals made fully Real and reasonable by Richard Dedekind and other demigods in the late 19th century.  From Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) and his famous dictum \"God made the integers; all else is the work of Man.\" This is one of those many slick aphorisms that defy reasonable analysis (if you spot the pun on analysis a branch of mathematics forgive me). Both theists and atheists have problems with Kronecker. Theists can claim that a Real God by definition is perfectly capable of extending the discrete integers to the Real number continuum. Atheists say that \"God don't enter into the equation.\" Early man invented the integers (how else can one impose taxes or count slaves?); later after much trial and error came the rationals or fractions (how else to divide the pie?) followed by the badly named irrationals made fully Real and reasonable by Richard Dedekind and other demigods in the late 19th century."}],"container-title":["Queue"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/1255421.1255437","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/1255421.1255437","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,18]],"date-time":"2025-06-18T20:22:28Z","timestamp":1750278148000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/1255421.1255437"}},"subtitle":["Errors, deceptions, and abmiguity"],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2007,5]]},"references-count":4,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2007,5]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1145\/1255421.1255437"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/1255421.1255437","relation":{},"ISSN":["1542-7730","1542-7749"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"1542-7730"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1542-7749"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2007,5]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2007-05-01","order":2,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}